Linux Users of Victoria: Tuesday 6th April

Several months ago Donna Benjamin convinced me to speak at LUV, and now the time is approaching.  My intent is to give a talk about bits and pieces, and rely on questions to see what the audience is interested in.  Pretty casual and should be heaps of fun if you’re nearby. I will also be …

Code review: libreplace

libreplace is the SAMBA library (also used in ctdb) to provide working implementations of various standard(ish) functions on platforms where they are missing or flawed.  It was initially created in 1996 by Andrew Tridgell based on various existing replacement hacks in utils.c (see commit 3ee9d454). The basic format of replace.h is: #ifndef HAVE_STRDUP #define strdup …

Not Always Lovely Blooms…

So, with my recent evangelizing of Bloom Filters, Tridge decided to try to apply them on a problem he was having.  An array of several thousand of unsorted strings, each maybe 100 bytes, which needed checking for duplicates.  In the normal case, we’d expect few or no duplicates. A Bloom Filter for this is quite …